Quotes of: Holy-ghost Keyword

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only way ghosts can hurt you is through your own fear

Cornelia Funke

I do believe in ghosts. Freaky things will happen, and I'm like, 'The wind didn't do that! Some spirit did'.

Devon Werkheiser

Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.

Claire Coffee

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least that's how it has always seemed to me.

John Searles

Top Dollar: For a ghost you bleed just fine.

The Crow

Dr. Peter Venkman: [to the librarian ghost] I'm Peter Venkman. Where are you from... originally?

Ghostbusters

Louie: Nothing seems to make sense anymore.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Enid: [noticing a pair of jeans on the sidewalk] Hey, look. There's the pants.

Ghost World

The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

Pamela Stephenson

Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.

T.A. Webb

When David Markson wrote in June to complain about an author's getting an award he though should have been his, Wallace gently warned him away from the pitfall of envy: "Mostly I try to remember how lucky I am to be able to write, and doubly, triply ...

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around...

The Ghost Writer

What was the power that induced strong soldiers to put off their jackets and shirts, and present their hands to be tied up, and tortured for hours, it might be, under the scourge, with an air of ready volition? The moral coercion of despair; the resu...

The Haunted Baronet And Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70

Like a forest rose the huge peaks above the slumbering village, measuring the night and heavens. They beckoned him. And something born of the snowy desolation, born of the midnight and silent grandeur, born of the great listening hollows of the night...

Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

People say the beach is the great equaliser Who are they kidding? Sit at Bondi and watch the boys flex And the girls walk bolt upright It looks like a nightmare episode of Baywatch. The true equaliser is the mountain cold And stacks of cold flung tog...

Kissing Annabel: Love, Ghosts, and Facial Hair; A Place Like This

The addict's reliance on the drug to reawaken her dulled feelings is no adolescent caprice. The dullness is itself a consequence of an emotional malfunction not of her making; the internal shutdown of vulnerability. Vulnerability is our susceptibilit...

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

The year was dying early, the leaves were falling fast, it was a raw cold day when we took possession, and the gloom of the house was most depressing. The cook (an amiable woman, but of a weak turn of intellect) burst into tears on beholding the kitc...

Three Ghost Stories

Oh God just look at me now... one night opens words and utters pain... I cannot begin to explain to you... this... I am not here. This is not happening. Oh wait, it is, isn't it? I am a ghost. I am not here, not really. You see skin and cuts and frai...

The Finer Points of Becoming Machine

[first lines] Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is found in death. Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears, and s...

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai